- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Quotes
On mothers, their advice, and what stays with us.
Several of these lines trace back to childhood impressions left by a mother's words, whether about appearance, privacy, or simply keeping close watch. For prayer-toned reflections, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
- Brushes
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
- Exactly The Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life as an advocate for those most in need is inspired by my mother's example. She believed in the potential inherent in each of us, and that belief is the foundation of my work.
- Child Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to my mother's sacrifices, I was able to attend one of the best schools in Chicago.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020